Mickey & MINI

I headed down to nearby Coronado Springs at Walt Disney World this afternoon, to join Mickey & MINI – the afternoon had a car show, and the evening offered buffet dinner, and raffle prizes! Lots of pictures:

This weekends Mickey & MINI demands that Black Knight gets washed. With sciatica making it nearly impossible to crouch down and lean forward (which it turns out is very necessary for washing a car), and with the strong summer sun and regular late afternoon rains, I’ve not washed the car since mid June! Of course the garage, and the fact that I couldn’t drive for a long while, means it was only very dirty, not horrifying!
But happily now I’m much more able to drive, and wash Black Knight, and she looks much better for it!

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I’m really very happy with using Dr Beasley’s Matte Car Care Products, the shampoo is easy to use and provides a good wash and finish, and the final finish spray gives a little extra smoothness to the matte paint … I could argue that washing Black Knight with these products is easier than a regular finish, since you don’t need (in fact must not) polish it!

Again because I hadn’t originally planned to fly down, I had not planned events, but learned of The Outta Control Dinner Show happening tonight, and bought a dinner ticket from someone that couldn’t attend. Excellent 🙂
So, another short MINI drive:

The show is at WonderWorks, a bit of an “upside-down place”! The actual dinner part of the evening was nothing great; some OK salad and less than best pizza slices, and a piece of cake … But of course the MINI company was perfect, as always!

The show itself (from Tony Brent) was hilarious and amazing; Tony performs comedy magic with a good level of audience participation, including a few great card tricks and a fabulous disappearing-$100-reappearing-in-a-lemon; he also discovered Xiek and had him up on stage …

My personal highlight surely was “I’ve got you Babe” – imagine an audience member with ventriloquist face mask operated by Brent as Cher, while he mimes Sonny!

A great evening – many thanks Mickey & MINI and all my MINI friends down here!

This morning I re-joined Mickey & MINI at the host hotel, to go driving around in a BIG MINI caravan! But before that … drum roll … I met Bruce with Cecil, or maybe it’s Cecil with Bruce (of the recently famous My Geek Odyssey); you can tell what sort of monkey Cecil is, by the way he abuses Bruce – horse riding!

Also before the drive, I met up again with James (of Library Of Motoring) and we swapped MTTS 2010 pins – so I have a few more now 🙂

A spectacular weather weekend down here, away from the rain up North and instead hanging out with close to 100 MINIs for another Mickey & MINI … this is always such a fun event, with lots of catching up on friends I’ve not seen for a year, some driving (tomorrow), and (for some) a little food and drink at Epcot!

In addition to the nice Tshirt I purchased with the registration pack, we got lots of “Mickey & MINI 5” themed freebies, including drink mug, tire pressure gauge and pen … ever more to add to the collection!